The Other and the Same: images of rescue and salvation in the Portuguese documentary film Children�s Parks (1945)

• Autores: Catarina Martins, Helena Cabeleira, Jorge Ramos do Ó
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 47, Nº. 4, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Education in Motion: producing methodologies for researching documentary film on education), págs. 491-505
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article deals with the heuristic potentials of the documentary film Children�s Parks in the historical and visual treatment of educational subjects and objects. We will choose specific moments in the film in order to discuss theoretical and methodological questions implied in the relationship between images and words, aiming to understand how pictorial meaning is connected to the production of specific kinds of subjectivities. Each section will mobilise different levels of description and analysis, with the result being an article whose outcome is itself a multi-level process that recasts and restructures the pictorial content of the film